We Are Wolves by Katrina Nannestad
$19.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books
Sometimes it's good to be wild. Sometimes you have to be wild. When the Russian Army marches into East Prussia at the end of the war, the Wolf family must flee. Liesl, Otto and their baby sister Mia find themselves lost and alone, in a blizzard, in the middle of a war zone. Liesl has promised Mama that ...Show more
The Sunbird by Sara Haddad
$19.95 AUD
Category: Adult
Nabila Yasmeen is in her eighties. She lives alone with over a hundred plants that she keeps in pots because she can’t bear to put them in the ground. In June of 1948, as a six-year-old girl, she was expelled with her family from their village in Palestine. Now she carries the weight of that expulsion w ...Show more
The Mother Wound by Amani Haydar
$22.99 AUD
Category: Adult
"I am from a family of strong women.' Amani Haydar suffered the unimaginable when she lost her mother in a brutal act of domestic violence perpetrated by her father. Five months pregnant at the time, her own perception of how she wanted to mother (and how she had been mothered) was shaped by this devas ...Show more
Hospital (PB) (Miles Franklin longlist 2024) by Sanya Rushdi
$26.95 AUD
Category: Adult
In Melbourne a one-time research student with interests in philosophy and psychology is diagnosed with her third episode of psychosis. As she is moved from her family home to a community house and then to hospital, she questions the diagnosis of her sanity or insanity, as determined and defined by a med ...Show more
But the Girl by Jessica Zhan Mei YU
$32.99 AUD
Category: Adult
Irreverent, witty and wise, But the Girl is a campus novel set off campus, and a coming-of-age story about not wanting to leave your family behind I used to have this line I saved and brought out for grant applications and writers festivals - that having been Jane Eyre, Anna Karenina and Esther Greenwo ...Show more
I Hear a Buho (Spanish/English) by Raquel Mackay
$24.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books
Climb on my lap. We're under the moon. We might hear some animales soon. I Hear a Boho is a rhyming story with text in English and Spanish, which encompasses language, the parent-child bond, nature, and the benefit of being still, and listening. A mother and daughter are snuggling together on their porc ...Show more
Way Away by Trish Butler
$27.00 AUD
Category: Picture Books
Way Away touches on the Stolen Generation in a way young minds may understand and ask questions at their will. Goombawa (koala) together with his Grandfather and friends go on a journey from the bush to the big city to find family. This story is based on Aboriginal Elder Noel Butler's knowledge of his f ...Show more
When the Trees Disappeared by Trish Butler
$27.00 AUD
Category: Picture Books
This is a storybook on the environment for children and adults. The destruction of clear-felling and the recent Australian wildfires has had a devastating impact on our wildlife. Australian native animals have been used in the stories with each animal an individual character. It is part of a series of i ...Show more
Hoàng Tử Bé / The Little Prince (Vietnamese) by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
$14.99 AUD
Category: Early Reader